Sarah
Libanore

Dr. Sarah Libanore is an Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellow in the Physics Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Together with her supervisor, Azrieli alum Dr. Ely Kovetz, Sarah is investigating the structure and content of the universe and how it has changed over time, by studying the properties of the astrophysical sources and their distribution in time and space.

In her work, Sarah deals with two different kinds of sources: the gravitational waves, produced when two massive and compact objects, such as black holes, collide; and emissions of hot gas in the early universe. Exploiting the synergies between these techniques can provide us with a new and invaluable tool for studying astrophysics and cosmology and understanding the universe we live in.

Sarah was born in a small city in the north of Italy. She pursued her BA, MA, and PhD degrees at the University of Padova. Her PhD research, under the supervision of Prof. Michele Liguori and Prof. Alvise Raccanelli, focused on the clustering of gravitational wave sources to understand cosmology. In 2022, under the auspices of the PhD Sandwich Program of the Israeli Council of Higher Education and with the support of Fondazione Aldo Gini, Sarah spent six months in Israel collaborating with Dr. Ely Kovetz. Sarah loves to talk about her research and thus also works as a science communicator, mainly with children. She is very curious and loves to travel, take photos, and meet new people from different cultures.